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Substance abuse problems persist among U.S. family businesses, threatening their viability, according to a new study between Dallas-based ReGENERATION Partners and Caron Treatment Centers.

In the study of 99 family businesses in the first quarter of 2012, more than half were coping with or expected to address a family-related addiction problem within their companies.

“Substance abuse and addiction in family-owned business is being grossly overlooked, yet it will have a dramatic impact on our society as well as our economy,” said James Olan Hutcheson, chairman and chief executive of ReGENERATION, a family business consulting firm.

Among other findings:

– 54 percent had worked through an addiction disorder within the company’s ownership or management.

– Of the families with addiction problems, 83 percent were working through drug or alcohol addiction, while 17 percent had dealt with a past addiction.